The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Votes: 22
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. Votes: 16
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. Votes: 9
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! Votes: 9
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Votes: 7
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Votes: 2
During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo. Votes: 0
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. Votes: 0
Passion is born deaf and dumb. Votes: 0
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. Votes: 0
Economized love is never real love. Votes: 0
Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact. Votes: 0
Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts. Votes: 0
Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness. Votes: 0
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Votes: 0
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. Votes: 0
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. Votes: 0
Sensuality is the death of the soul. Votes: 0
Love is the poetry of the senses. Votes: 0
What is art? Nature concentrated. Votes: 0
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Votes: 0
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. Votes: 0
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. Votes: 0
All we are is in the soul. Votes: 0
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man. Votes: 0
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. Votes: 0
Glory is the sunshine of the dead Votes: 0
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. Votes: 0
Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge. Votes: 0
I am a galley slave to pen and ink. Votes: 0
I am not deep, but I am very wide. Votes: 0
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. Votes: 0
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge. Votes: 0
Love knows nothing of modesty. Votes: 0
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. Votes: 0
Men who pay their tailors never amount to anything, they never even become Cabinet ministers. Votes: 0
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. Votes: 0
Necessity is the spur of genius. Votes: 0
No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. Votes: 0
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love. Votes: 0
Nothing about me surprises me. Votes: 0
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others. Votes: 0
Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves. Votes: 0
Pity is woman's sweetest charm. Votes: 0
Reading brings us unknown friends Votes: 0
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. Votes: 0
Resignation is a daily suicide. Votes: 0
The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed. Votes: 0
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. Votes: 0
The union of a want and a sentiment. Votes: 0
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman. Votes: 0
To speak of love is to make love. Votes: 0
Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence. Votes: 0
We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing. Votes: 0
We love because we love. Votes: 0
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. Votes: 0